[pipe2devnull]

Wow that’s a bit harsh. You can’t think of any examples where you may need to send a string to something but want to do it quickly?

[amelius]

Yeah maybe a bit harsh. But the point is if you are looking for that kind of performance, I don't see why you wouldn't send binary data and then unpack it as needed.

[appreciatorBus]

If you control both ends of the pipe, then sure. But for better or worse, large chunks of infrastructure expect to send or receive JSON.

[__s]

csv/tsv are alive & well for interorg data pipelines

[amelius]

But JSON uses floats, not integers.

[bee_rider]

Does it really? I assumed it used strings.

[Shish2k]

javascript uses floats as its own default numeric data type; but other languages do have integers, and might want to convert those integers into a JSON (string) representation

[DarkUranium]

Because maybe the choice of serialization format isn't under your control?